Concord News Notes and Local Sights
Local residents and visitors are listed in brief items from Concord and nearby towns. Names include Colonel William Barrett at Rye beach, Horatio C. Watts granted a pension, Richard B. Derby at Provincetown, and J. S. Keyes enjoying a Provincetown vacation. Numerous travels, visits, and social happenings follow, with weathering notes on clubs, shops, and a Nantucket excursion by Masons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horatio C. Watts
Richard B. Derby
C.H
Provincetown
Washburn Circus Arrives With Aerial Feats And Cat Minstrels
Leon W. Washburns circus comes this way showing Roman hippodrome scenes and thrilling races. The Royal Japs from Tokio balance on high wires while cat minstrels perform on various instruments. Capt Bailey the San Francisco fireman dives from a 125 foot ladder. The parade is large and the free exhibition astonishing. The show comes next Monday August 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon W. Washburn
Tokio
Bailey
San Francisco
Books added to the Concord Free Public Library in August 1896
A catalog of new acquisitions lists authors and titles including Belknap History of New Hampshire, Johnsons, Kipling Life's Handicap, Hutton Philip Augustus, Rogers Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, Roosevelt Winning of the West, and many others. The list names publishers and pricing cues, with varied topics from history and biography to fiction and reference works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord Free Pubic Library
Barlow
Mrs. Martin’s Company
Belknap
New Hampshire
Bunner
Jersey Street
Jersey Lane
Suburban Sage
Cambridge
Mass
Register_book of
New Towne
R. L Corelli
Thelma
Couch
Doran
England
Everett
Wm. Prescott
Fuller
Furman
Philip of
Innes
John Knox
King
Kipling
Lampman
McPherson
Martin
Merriman
Miller
Norris
Dancer
Paris
R.L. Penhallow
New England
Pool
Mrs
Gerald
Putnam
Rivers
Governor's Garden
Rogers
Mary Dyer
Rhode Island
Romanes
George John Romanes
Roosevelt
Salmond
Seawell
Smith
Tom Grogan
Stannard
Stimson
Africa
Italy
London
Orient
Scotland
Tiernan, Victure
Las Cruces
Walker
Ward
New York Male Quartet Delights Camp Chorister Audience
A New York male quartet with a choir boy gave a well ordered concert last Wednesday at Camp Chorister bay. Soloists impressed. master Willie Brady charmed with encores. Douglass Lane delivered a deep bass. a light turnout from Concord noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lane
Concord
Willie Brady
New_York
Holy City
Willie Bradley
Heart's Delight
F. G. Corbett
Red Scarf
Douglass Lane
Phantom Band
Silent Waterlily
Lord Is
Shepherd
Ralph Stoddard
HH. T. Dean
Toreador Holla
F. J. Bryan
Master Brady and Quartet
J D Murray Offers Complete Household Goods Selection
After summer, J D Murray invites customers to browse a full assortment of groceries, furniture, crockery, glass, tinware, woodenware, carpets, straw mattings, oils, cloths, and wallpapers. He promises to obtain sought items quickly and offers ten outdoor chairs at very low prices to clear stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Murray
Miss Rebecca Ames Weds Edward B Adams in Cambridge
Miss Rebecca Ames and Edward B Adams formerly of Colorado Springs were married at the Old Manse by Rev Loren B Macdonald. Limited attendance due to mourning. They depart on a wedding tour, then reside in Cambridge. Congratulations poured in from friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Ames
Edward B. Adams
Colorado Springs
Loren B. Macdonald
First Parish
Cambridge
Parish Services and Local Church Notices
Sunday and weekday worship schedules for First Parish Unitarian and nearby churches listed with pastors and meeting times. Also notes on free seating and evening services with dates for December Sundays. The fragment ends with an advertisement for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Scandinavian M.E
Concord News Classified Fragments and Ads
Local tax collection hours at J C Friend's drugstore on Saturdays from 4 to 6 and Wednesdays and Saturdays 7 to 9 evenings. Listings include houses for sale on Main Street and Lowell Road, rental notices, laundry agents, a new fish market on Walden Street, carriage trimming, Lawrence brands, musical instruments, groceries and farm items. Also advertising windows for pianos, furniture, insurance, and miscellaneous goods with prices and contact cues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Friend
Main Street
John H. Chapman
G. St. L. Abbott
Lowell Road
Miss. Kennedy
Miss Andrews
Prescott Keyes
Concord
Tremont Street
Boston
Concord Enterprise
Walden Street
Post Office
Garfield Bros
G. H. Hopkins
Towle & Kent's
Geo. H. Hopkins
New Concord Buggies
P. W. White
Edward ‘C. Damon’s
C. E. Brown's
Albereen
R. R. Station
Concord Library
Concord Musical Club Members Soothe Summer Ailments
In Concord Massachusetts on August 25 some members of the Woman's Musical Club including Wm. Buttrick P M C Biveau Andrew Carrigan and several ladies urged relief for summer ailments. The ad endorses DeWitt's Colic Cholera Cure as an instant remedy for children and a reliable treatment for dysentery and diarrhoea. Johnson & Son and C H Whitney are mentioned among supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitts
B. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
Col. Whitney
Concord
H. A. Littlefield
West Acton
Mass
Wm. Buttrick
P. M. C. Biveau
Andrew Carrigan
Glorindo Glacco
Samuel Keeler
John A. White
Thomas White
Peter Dusett
Emma Pierce
Frederick Rayfield
DeWitt
B. ¥. Johnson & Son
C. H. Whitney
Also Mentioned on This Page
William Barrett
Rye Beach
J. S. Keyes
William Prescott
Henry J. Hosmer Jr
Gray's Inn
Jackson
N. H
A. O. U. W. Lodge
Charles Albariy
Robert G. Damon
Andover Mills
Andover
Susan Jackson
Mrs. Bridges
West Medford
Thos. Surette
Manchester-by-the-Sea
E. H. Whitcomb
Malden
G. J. Emmett
Fred Hunt
E. A. Bradish
Edward Seaver
Townsend
J.D. Murray
Phabe Merritt
Fitchburg
N. S. Daniels
Hubbard Street
Harry Saunders
Burdett’s College
Chas. H. Towle
Newport
Mr. Towle
West Boylston
Edna Maker
May Strickland
William Harding
Dorchester
Lulu Flint
Ludlow
Onset Bay
William Hunt
Concord Junction
Corinthian Lodge
Nantucket
Frank L. Richardson
H. S
Maine
Hampton
Portland
H. S. Richardson
Montreal
Druggists
Circus
New Books
Unitarian
Young Peoples’ Guild
Prinity Church
J. P. Anderson
Benj. W. Brown
the Grand Republic
Manufac
Kota
F.R.R. Station
Concord, Mass
C. S. Towne
Tremont St
WM. ©. Hale
Maynard St
Acton
Mags
James Devane
William F. Litchfield
Maynard, Mass
Concord Clothing Company
Friend’s Block
Smalley
Tell LS
C.si. Mead & CO
Westvale
Westvale, Mass
Lancaster
Boston Era
Donegal
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